27 occurrences

'Strange' in the Bible

And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly with them; and he said unto them. Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.

Verse ConceptsPretenceAwarenessBuying FoodRecognising PeopledisguisesWhere From?

Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt-offering, nor meal-offering; and ye shall pour no drink-offering thereon.

Verse ConceptsAltar Of Incensedrink offeringAnimal Sacrifices, Meal OfferingIncense Offered AmissMeat offerings

And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took each of them his censer, and put fire therein, and laid incense thereon, and offered strange fire before Jehovah, which he had not commanded them.

Verse ConceptsFireWorship, Acceptable AttitudesAaron, CharacterDisobedience, Examples OfSacrilegeCensersForeign ThingsBurning SacrificesIncense Offered Amiss

And Nadab and Abihu died before Jehovah, when they offered strange fire before Jehovah, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children; and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the presence of Aaron their father.

Verse ConceptsDeath As PunishmentBurning SacrificesDying In The Desert

And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsDeath As PunishmentBurning Sacrifices

And Jehovah said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the harlot after the strange gods of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.

Verse ConceptsProstitutionRest, PhysicalSleep, And DeathTrust, Lack OfNearness Of DeathBreaking The CovenantDeath Will Soon HappenDeath

They moved him to jealousy with strange gods ; With abominations provoked they him to anger.

Verse ConceptsGod, Zeal OfJealousyGod, Jealous

I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsdrynessPeople Drying Things UpFeet In ActionFailing Rivers

My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to the children of mine own mother.

Verse ConceptsOffencePeople Being Hatedreuniting

If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;

Verse ConceptsNeglecting God's Thingslukewarm

There shall no strange god be in thee; Neither shalt thou worship any foreign god.

Verse ConceptsMonotheismIdolatry Consists OfDo Not Have Other godsWorshiping GodWorshiping Together

When Israel went forth out of Egypt, The house of Jacob from a people of strange language;

Verse ConceptsJacob, The PatriarchPast, TheLanguages Mentioned In ScriptureLeaving EgyptUnknown Languages

To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;

Verse ConceptsHarlotsSalvation By Other ThingsGodly WomanSexual Purity

For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil:

Verse ConceptsLipsMouthsPersuasionEleganceadultry

For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?

Verse ConceptsInfatuationAvoid Adultery

That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the foreigner that flattereth with her words.

Verse ConceptsPersuasion

Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter perverse things.

Verse ConceptsAlcoholImagination, Evil SchemingSpectacle

For thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength; therefore thou plantest pleasant plants, and settest it with strange slips.

Verse ConceptsFortressesGod, The RockRocksMetaphorical Plantingmindfulness

For Jehovah will rise up as in mount Perazim, he will be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his strange work, and bring to pass his act, his strange act.

Verse ConceptsGod ArisingWhat God Does

Thou shalt not see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that thou canst not comprehend, of a strange tongue that thou canst not understand.

Verse ConceptsNot Understanding LanguageUnknown LanguagesSpeech Impediments

I have declared, and I have saved, and I have showed; and there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith Jehovah, and I am God.

Verse ConceptsForeign ThingsI Am The Lord

For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;

not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, if I sent thee to them, they would hearken unto thee.

Verse ConceptsUnintelligiblenessNot Understanding Language

They have dealt treacherously against Jehovah; for they have borne strange children: now shall the new moon devour them with their fields.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, To GodNew Moon FestivalBeginning Of PeriodsUnfaithful

I wrote for him the ten thousand things of my law; but they are counted as a strange thing.

Verse ConceptsForeign ThingsThe Law Given To IsraelOld Testament Claims Inspiration

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